gobymasters
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what is the easiest and cheapest leopard wrasse
leopard wrasse care
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gobymasters
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i know all leopards are difficult but whats the easiest
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Ralph ATL
Formerly mysterybox
I have found them equally difficult. Not for the beginner by any means. Also not for a new tank. Once established they are very hardy. The key, like with all fish, is to acquire healthy specimens. I always buy specimens from my LFS that are observed eating. I bring them home and place them into an established QT tank which contains live rock and ween them onto prepared foods before they go into the display.
My current collection includes M.meleagris male (the standard leopard), M.bipartus female (divided leopard), M.geoffroyi (potters wrasse) and M.choati female(choati). They're all housed in my 240 reef community.
My current collection includes M.meleagris male (the standard leopard), M.bipartus female (divided leopard), M.geoffroyi (potters wrasse) and M.choati female(choati). They're all housed in my 240 reef community.
jason2459
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If you really want a leopard I highly suggest reading the primer that mysterybox posted a link to and where you posted this very question. They all are very touch and go the first few weeks to months. Many have internal parasites but don't QT well and is recommended to add right to your main tank. So, be willing to dose something like prazipro in there for each leopard wrasse addition. If you are not willing then I would avoid getting any kind of leopard. Be prepared with a variety of meaty frozen and live food. Have a well established tank (I would say a year some may say 6months) to allow enough maturity in the system and your experience to reduce parameter fluctuations that can add to the fishes stress level. This will also allow for an ample supply of live food in you tank to graze on all day along with the live and frozen you will be adding. They stress very easily and need to be left alone by you once added to the tank along with having peaceful tank mates that won't bother them. They will die due to stress.
And to directly answer your question iamwrasseman already said it in that primer thread. Any common wrasse is about the same price and difficulty.
And to directly answer your question iamwrasseman already said it in that primer thread. Any common wrasse is about the same price and difficulty.
JonSadowsky
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Jason, I highly recommend QT. I have had great success that way. It allows getting them to eat without the stress of competition. That is the first thing I do. Once they are eating I start on a Prazi-Pro regimen and after that Cupramine if needed. Tank is bare bottom so I can vacuum out uneaten food and waste. To give them a place to sleep I take an 8" x 8" Pyrex brownie dish and fill it with sand. They find it and use it no problem. It usually takes 4 -5 weeks to go through the whole process but the majority of wrasses I have QT'ed have made it past the two year mark.
PIA? Yes, worth it? Yep IMO.
Jon
VengefulNemesis
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I just got a female M. Meleagris, for my 3 yr old 75 gal. I got her from a very reputable fish store, where I saw her eat. I brought her home, acclimated her and put her into the display. She proceeded to go hide in the back of my tank, but after two days she came out and stays out for a couple of hours each time now. I think getting a healthy specimen to start off with is key.
jason2459
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I'll defer to the experience gathered in the leopard wrasse primer including my post in there recently dealing with my recent additions and procedures. I do agree with the general concerns with trying to use a QT tank with these fish in that thread.
jason2459
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I hate to post this and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but I found copramine to be safe.
Goniocologist
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Never had any luck with a leopard wrasse
jason2459
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Unfortunately most people don't. Even the most experienced.
Excellent advice. A healthy one in an established largish tank is easy; I have kept them for years. Read the primer.
gobymasters
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i know their all difficult PS it didn't really help the link
jason2459
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The link worked for me and was extremely helpful to me in large part due to posters like Steve, Dave, and others like mysterbox who posted the link to the leopard wrasse primer thread. I've read through it three times now and have picked up something new each time because of a breed understanding. If you start from the beginning of that thread you'll quickly find out what are the common wrasses in just the first few pages. If you keep reading you'll quickly learn how to care for them and warning signs to look out for.
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jason2459
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I'd like to add these really should not be s fish for a beginner or those not will to put in a little research. I still have my heart drop hopping my wrasses are a gonner when I don't see one of them when I get home from work. I just have to tell myself its normal and be on the look out the next day. If course I still look in my overflow and sump. Also hope you tank is covered as they can jump.
gobymasters
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Jason i understand leopards are not for beginners, i have 30 years of fish under my belt tho
jason2459
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Jason i understand leopards are not for beginners, i have 30 years of fish under my belt tho
I don't think I did call you beginner? If I did it was generalizing for any beginner that happens to come along this thread searching for information about leopard wrasses. These fish can be difficult for even the most experienced but I still don't think you got the point from my last post which was please read through the leopard fish primer as it has a lot of very helpful tips a and tricks along with the full answers to your questions and then some.
